The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Wounded Knee Massacre - 1890 - Mar. 13th, 2003

http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/woundedknee/WKmscr.html ^ | Lorie Liggett

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

and they will happily vote for politicians who keep their subsidy in place by outlawing the use of the more accurate measures.
How about that! You've bought into it!

I could correlate bologna sandwich consumption with auto accidents if I could only get my hands on the right data set. 2 + 2 = 5 (for certain values of 2).
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Yes, and you would lose your job if you tried to implement such a crackpot model as an insurance or loan application underwriting model - - because your company would have its head handed to it in the marketplace.

On the other hand, if you think you have a more accurate credit risk assessment model, and you're right, you could make a fortune using it to clean up on the competition for loan origination. Talk is cheap - -put up or shut up.

[Jen]

Hi there. I think your post was intended for someone else on a different thread.

[docmcb]

My knowledge of Wounded Knee is from SLA Marshall's CRIMSONED PRAIRIE, in which he defends the Army and contends that WK was indeed a battle at the start -- though it turned into a massacre. There were apparently a lot of soldiers killed or wounded, indicating a deliberate plot by the Souix, with many guns hidden under blankets. Has anyone else read CP? BURY MY HEART AT WK was written just after VietNam, and particularly the My Lai massacre; there were a lot of folks glad to see the Army portrayed as prone to massacre civilians. Marshall was (no doubt) equally concerned with defending the US Army in that post-VN atmosphere. Note that I'm not saying there wasn't a massacre, just that there really was a serious gunbattle first, which may have been initiated by the Souix.